that just means your friend is a stupid person with no self control people can get addicted to booze, food, masturbation anything and if she really cant handle weed then she should stop it maybe you being a good friend could help her threw it......

Do you drink alcohol? Do you smoke cigarettes? Do you eat fast food? Do you drink caffeinated beverages? Have you ever taken a prescription pain medication? Have you ever used NyQuil or Robitussin? I could keep listing things that people use every day that weak individuals take and ruin their own lives with it. An inanimate object does not have the ability to be bad, it exists it's actions follow the laws of nature that govern them. It's us, people, who **** it up just like everything else.

Have you actually done the research into the medical benefits of marijuana? It has been shown to help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. It's an anti-depressant, a pain reliever, an anti-emetic, sorry there's more but that's what I have off of the top of my head. I could go into political blah blah blah, but why? As it stands now the "war" on weed is dwindling, state by state they are adopting laws to make it legal for medical consumption, and slowly those states that already have the medical use passed, they are pushing for legislation to fully decriminalize it for recreational use. What we think/say here is irrelevant. Within the next ten years I see it being fully decriminalized nation wide and on the federal level. If you don't like weed don't use it thats fine, but democracy be damned if we "potheads" let people from stopping us from enjoying a harmless, yes until you show me scientific research to back up the claims of it being harmful not just personal experiences then it will remain harmless.

another person on here already addressed that issue, scientific research has found that because of the cannabinoid receptors in the brain, it kills cancerous brain cells that form independently from the actual brain structure. Heavy marijuana use has been proven to do less damage to the brain than drinking alcohol.

Well to be fair as pro marijuana as I am I agree introducing any form of combustible anything into your body will do some level of harm. In fact putting anything that you body didn't have in the first place will have side effects. Nothing is perfect the side effects of these pharmaceuticals that the FDA pass are scary as ****. I mean come on ,anal seepage, really? It's all a guess when it comes to the stuff. But we keep shoving down our throats, anti biotics, pain killers (i.e. asprin, tylonol, bayer) all of these slow destroy the body and together cause's a lot of damage.You have to take one medicine to mask the side effects of this other one. And so on and so forth. I am empathetic to the plight of your friend I really am, but is it bad to let people such as my self, whom are productive members of society, hold down a full time and part time job to pay for school and housing. Also have never done anything, short of smoking pot and maybe speeding every now and then, illegal. Would it be a travesty for us not to have to worry about being sent to jail for consuming marijuana for recreational use? I don't like to drink alcohol father was an alcoholic, and I get bad hangovers, but a joint every couple of weeks is that bad?

Some unfortunate people are allergic to peanuts and dont know it, and when they consume them there is a big chance they will die, should we not make peanuts illegal, I mean it is a rather small sacrafice for those unfortunate who are allergic.

But some people dont know that they are allergic and when they consume large quantities of peanuts they will die. Sorry whoozy, but there are also alot of people who are allergic and dont know it, so they cant avoid it, the problem is that the body keeps being hypersensitive to some substances, like peanuts. And they can directly die from it, unlike like from weed. You just have a weak personality if weed destroys your life, but you cant do anything if you are allergic and dont know it.

Yes, yes it is. After working all week there is nothing like rolling joint and listening to some good music, sure you can tell me that there are ways to relax but weed is the thing that takes the pressure off. I like smoking weed, and I dont think that my right to smoking it should be restrained because some people who have a weak personality will abuse it and destroy theyre lives. By your logic you might as well ban alcohol and tobacco.

Omfg how arrogant can you be? People like drinking alcohol and smoking, getting high on weed, it is not your or anyone elses right to ban them, it is your personal view on drugs, I have a right to drink and smoke what ever the **** i want because I am not responsible for anyone who is too stupid or weak and gets addicted.

I already can do ANYTHING I want, I can go to a dealer and get cocaine, heroin or whatever the **** I want, but I dont, because im not retarded like your friend, I know that it could get me addicted so I dont do it. But weed does good for me, and I dont want to be a criminal for smoking it. And btw Portugal legalized all drugs and there are less drug addicts and drug related crime. So guess what, your ******** hypocrisy doesnt work, giving people an option works.

Weed does do good for me, it might be harmful for my lungs and my body but it relaxes me, it good for my mind, it helps me go thru **** everyday. Without relaxing I would not be able to work as well I work when using weed. You just never experienced it, you know what happened to your friend and label drugs as the root of evil.
Just type "portugal after legalizing drugs" in to google and get all the info you want.
"Someone tries a drug once believing they wont get hooked and gets trapped"
But I dont, and neither am I responsible in any way for theyre foolishness, I should not be punished for it.

You also know if it is illigal people have to go thru dealers, you know, the kind of people that carry a gun around and shoot you if you dont have the money? And lets say you friend loans weed from a dealer and promises to pay him back but dont, the dealer will kill her. But if weed would be legal she would just buy the **** from a store and would live on, + it would not be so expensive so she have to blow all her money on it. **** like that happens everyday, because drugs are illigal, it kills the addicts and funds organized crime.

I honestly believe we would live in a much worse place but thats my opinion, just like you have yours. I have given you my point of view and hope you now understand a bit better why I and other people support the legalization of drugs. Im out, bye.

Yes, alcohol is the perfect example.You can go in to the store and buy enough of it to kill yourself. Do you? Does the majority of people do it? There are alcoholics, people who are addicted to it, has the society fallen now? People have a choice to drink, most of them dont. They have a risk of becoming addicted to it, but most people are smart enough not to get addicted. The same would apply to drugs, a very small percentage would get addicted to them, but would at the same time allow people like me( who dont get addicted but really enjoy drugs) to use drugs.

They help reduce drug abuse but they sure as hell increase drug related crime and deaths. What would you prefer, if an addict would buy heroin from a legitimate place, get clean heroin, use a clean needle, would not have to pay all his/her money on it, would not go bankrupt, could possibly funcion in normal life, or if he would go to a dealer, buy some heroin cut with poisonous substances, pay all the money he has, go bankrupt, steal in order to get heroin, owe money to the dealer and in the end get killed by the dealer? If you care so much about people why do you support a system where they get killed and poisoned? A girl i know bough extacy at a rave party and got a serious poioning and nearly died, if drugs would be legal she could have gotten clean extasy.

Well I cant post links, but type "portugal statistic after legalizing drugs" in to google and have a look for yourself. Of cource we cant completely predict what will hapen if drugs would be legalized globaly, altough you can get pretty much get any drugs you want in south america, middle east, Africa, and parts of asia and people there arent addicts who cant deal with their lives. Life would most likely go on like usual, there would be less drug related deaths and crime. And people like me could smoke weed without being labeled as a criminal.

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Its just down to what you think would happen, when there are perfect exaples what really happens. You are now just holding on your idea, rather the actually analysing and understanding what would really happen.

For the statistic just do a little research on the internet, i cant post links here i think.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/ten-years-ago-portugal-legalized-all.html
You can get high on heroin in most of the mid eastern countries, are there any news that the populace there are all heroin addicts?
If cocaine would be legal would you go to the store and buy it? No? Neither would most of the people because everyone are completely aware what dangers drugs posess.
Drugs being illigal is only useful for the drugdealers and mafia, if drugs would be legal organized crime loose their main income. Crimes would go down, corruption would go down since organized crime would not have that much money/power anymore.

What, no? Weed was legal when your friend started smoking it?
It would stay pretty much the same, Portugal did not increase addicts by legalizing drugs, Holland native people arent addicts to weed, people in south america arent addicts to cocaine

I don't know my friends and I aren't lazy stoners we get super ripped then clean the apartment, reorganize small items, and rearrange furniture. My girlfriend spends this time doing her physics homework, she's a pot head and majoring in nuclear physics, with a minor in applied and theoretical physics. I guess it affects everyone differently, I get lazy and not wanting to do anything when I get drunk. When I'm drunk nothing else matters but me. Thats why I do not drink.

Do you drink alcohol? Do you smoke cigarettes? Do you eat fast food? Do you drink caffeinated beverages? Have you ever taken a prescription pain medication? Have you ever used NyQuil or Robitussin? I could keep listing things that people use every day that weak individuals take and ruin their own lives with it. An inanimate object does not have the ability to be bad, it exists it's actions follow the laws of nature that govern them. It's us, people, who **** it up just like everything else.

and alcohol has so many benefits to you? weed is being used as medicines and as relaxants booze kills brain cells and turns good people into assholes and animals weed is illegal and with the money being thrown at keeping it illegal from the alcohol companies it will stay like that. They want you to drink and get drunk and drive and beat your wife and **** up your life because it brings in money threw court and legal fee's

but booze was made illegal and the rise in crime and health problems from unclean distilling processes and underground speak easies made them turn over the law i mean even the white house had a secret wine cellar my family has a drinking problem and i can have a few beers but i need to know when to stop because of the mr hyde in me that can come out but when i smoke im still me just with a broader mind set to me pot opens my mind and makes me think more than if i was drunk so whats the difference from gettin ripped up drunk and straight up baked theres no real use for getting drunk or high its just a way to relax and unwind its a personal preference the way i see it

america sent over 40 billion dollars in 2011 on the war on drugs and they say that pot is the main money maker for the cartels and gangs and with gang violence in mexico at the highest and most violent its ever been wouldnt taking the money people spend and give to them instead taxing it and putting it back into the american economy be the better thing? they call pot the gateway drug and thats because people are buying from a guy that sells pot and crack or somthing worse then that amsterdam is the perfect example of a good system to use they have the lowest hard drug use in europe and have a low crime rate i mean look at prohibition they make booze illegal gangsters and crime goes up they make it legal again and the gangs that were running booze went down because now they have a product that anyone can buy at any corner store

if you look at the facts about pot compared to coke or meth those drugs destroy people and familys when was the last time you read a pot head robbed a bank for pot money or a pot head robbed someone in a alley im sure it can happen but not as much as crack heads and meth heads go and do no one has ever said they want to legalize all drugs just pot and its medical companies and alcohol companies that push to keep it illegal popular mechanics had a magazine issue that called hemp the fiber of the future the lotus car company made a car shell out of hemp and its stronger that fiber glass and up there in tensile strength with carbon fiber if you look up how it came about being made illegal you'll see it was based off of racism and they fact that loggers didnt want to spend the money to make the switch to hemp....now whats better for the environment cutting down tree's that take 50 years to grow or taking hemp and in 4 months you have a new field to harvest theres so much that can be done with hemp other that medicines and getting high

well think of this i could go out and buy 3 gallons of vodka and drink myself to death i could trick a dr into giving me oxy's which alot of them have no problems giving out i could down a hole bottle and kill myself off them i could go buy a gun and rob a bank i could eat 100 big macs and give myself a heart attack and i could buy a pound of pot and fall asleep before i even come close to death from overdosing i mean oxy's are heroin in a pill form its just a fact of life that people will find a way to get high the hemp plant has been on this plant before you me and everyone else you've ever met and it wasnt till the 20's or 30's that it was made illegal people have been using it for thousand's of years and not until recently it was banned

i know i know im not trying to argue with you i just feel like if everyone looked at the whole thing in a different light that the stigma of pot heads are losers and lazy will stop the american colonies where the largest producers of hemp back in the day george washington grew hemp and made whiskey the declaration of independence was written on hemp paper what the facts basically boil down to is that its here its been here and its time to start to use it for all of its uses and if smoking it and gettin stoned off of it happens well it happens people can buy computer duster and use it as intended or you can huff the can but you dont see them banning that

see everyone thats against pot brings up these stupid facts like that one wit stealing and ooo it will be a health care nightmare when the truth is people that the ones that buy pot in a store are just gonna be the same people buying it in the street are you like a 35 year old mother or something the worlds changing better open your eyes before your left in the dust

how tho the thing is is that no one that supports the legalization of pot has ever brought up the fact that if pots legal then meth or coke or crack should be to its the ones that oppose it are the ones that say well if pots legal why shouldnt stealing or murder or anything else its just a way for you to try and make a stupid analogy to reference something that all people appose just to get your point across im laying out facts your laying out slander

"addicted" you cant get addicted to pot. there is literally no physical dependency to it. at the most theres a small longing for it, but no actual addiction. i know addiction, i was hooked on oxycodone for the longest time, and the longing for pot is NOT addiction.

im not talking by leaps and bounds, jsut slightly
But among light users (fewer than five joints a week)*, researchers found gains in IQ scores of about 5.8 points. Former users and non-users also had slight increases in their scores -- of 3.5 and 2.6, respectively.” www.marijuana.com/threads/can-marijuana-make-you-smarter.161714/

there is no addictive qualities in weed if i'm not mistaken. Her brain isn't saying "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GIVE ME WEED" it's her thinking that she wants the weed and likes that feeling it gives. Having a little restraint can make her stop unlike cigarretes which make the brain think it needs the nicotine.

I am gunna go ahead and say she is probably full of ****. I'll bet anything she is just looking for a scape goat for her actions and wants to blame weed so she can continue acting this way because she doesn't really want to change. I know because i was an immature weed smoker to. I was failing 4 classes in high school and thought pot was the cause so I brought up the courage to quit. Well guess what? It wasn't. I was just as lazy as before I quit. Realizing I had nobody or nothing to blame but myself I pulled my act together and Im an honor student now. And guess what else? I smoke fat everyday, sometimes before school. And if she really does get "psycologial help for it" than she probably has some sort of mental condition and shouldnt be smoking weed in the first place, so thats her fault, not the weed. But Im still betting she's just immature and needs to realize she only has herself to blame...

Notice the use of "probably" you twit. From the vague description you provided of her I'm just assuming this is a case of immaturity because it sounds like what I went through. And if weed really does make you so lazy how can you explain hundreds of thousands of people who live normal healthy lives while smoking everyday?

Well alcohol is legal and it causes all sorts of problems throughout the body, and it is mentally addicting. Thousands die every year from the effects it does on the body alone, and people can even die from withdrawing even if they do try to quit; it they are alcoholics that is. But thats legal. And I honestly don't even want to go into why tobacco is legal. But point being if all this **** is legal than making weed legal (prohibited of course) would like be putting a drop in the ocean.